GDR swimming championships 1982

The venue for the GDR swimming championships in 1982

The GDR swimming championships were held for the 33rd time in 1982 and took place from May 26th to 30th in the Erfurt swimming pool south, where the champions were determined on 31 courses (16 men / 15 women). For the first time, the 50 meter freestyle was on the program. With nine titles, SC Dynamo Berlin was the most successful team and with Jörg Woithe , who won four titles just like Ute Geweniger from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt , the most successful athlete in this championship.

The sporting highlight of the championship was Jörg Woithe's European record over 100 meters freestyle. For men Frank Baltrusch over 200 meters back and Andreas Reichel over 200 meters medley and women Ute Geweniger over 200 meters chest set new GDR records . In addition, the men's relay from SC Dynamo Berlin set new GDR records for club relays in the 4 × 100 and 4 × 200 meter freestyle.

Time schedule

The prelims started daily at 10 a.m. and the finals at 6 p.m.

Time schedule
Day	Competitions
	Men's	Ladies
Wednesday May 26, 1982	100 m chest 200 m freestyle 100 m butterfly	100 m freestyle 400 m medley 4 × 100 m medley relay
Thursday May 27, 1982	050 m freestyle 400 m medley 200 m back 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	200 m freestyle 200 m chest
Friday May 28, 1982	100 m freestyle 200 m chest	400 m freestyle 100 m back 100 m chest 4 × 100 m freestyle relay
Saturday May 29, 1982	400 m freestyle 200 m butterfly 100 m back 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	050 m freestyle 100 m butterfly 800 m freestyle
Sunday May 30, 1982	0200 m medley 1500 m freestyle 4 × 100 m medley relay	200 m medley 200 m butterfly 200 m back

Men's

competition	gold		silver		bronze
050 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	22.86 s	Peter Schneider SC Dynamo Berlin	23.68 s	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	23.79 s
100 m freestyle	Jörg Woithe SC Dynamo Berlin	49.81 sec	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	51.03 s	Peter Schneider SC Dynamo Berlin	52.07 s
200 m freestyle	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	1: 51.79 min	Lars Hinneburg SC Empor Rostock	1: 52.41 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	1: 52.83 min
400 m freestyle	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	3: 55.88 min	Lars Hinneburg SC Empor Rostock	3: 57.80 min	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	3: 58.43 min
1500 m freestyle0	Sven Lodziewski SC Dynamo Berlin	15: 25.13 min	Rainer Strohbach TSC Berlin	15: 45.20 min	André Matzk SC Dynamo Berlin	15: 58.40 min
100 m chest	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 05.27 min	Ralf Buttgereit SC Dynamo Berlin	1: 05.35 min	Jens Schulz SC unit Dresden	1: 06.47 min
200 m chest	Sigurd Hanke SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 20.85 min	Jens Schulz SC unit Dresden	2: 21.77 min	Ralf Buttgereit SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 22.56 min
100 m butterfly	Olaf Ziesche SC Dynamo Berlin	56.57 s	Jens Gregor SC DHfK Leipzig	56.83 s	Tino Ott SC DHfK Leipzig	56.99 s
200 m butterfly	Torsten Karl SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 01.97 min	Andreas Peikert ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 05.50 min	Lars Grapentin SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 05.74 min
100 m back	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	56.69 s	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	57.17 s	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	58.39 s
200 m back	Frank Baltrusch SC Magdeburg	2: 01.47 min	Dirk Richter SC Unit Dresden	2: 03.24 min	Frank Embacher TSC Berlin	2: 04.78 min
200 m layers	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	2: 05.52 min	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	2: 05.79 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	2: 08.20 min
400 m layers	Jens-Peter Berndt ASK Forward Potsdam	4: 26.29 min	Andreas Reichel SC unit Dresden	4: 27.70 min	Rainer Sternal SC Magdeburg	4: 34.03 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Peter Schneider Jörg Woithe Knut Bludau Sven Lodziewski	3: 26.64 min	SC Unit Dresden Andreas Reichel Dirk Richter Frank Eichler Müller	3: 30.92 min	SC Empor Rostock Conrad Krüger Uwe Sofke Lars Hinneburg	3: 32.62 min
4 × 200 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Knut Bludau Jörg Woithe Peter Schneider André Matzk	7: 38.09 min	SC Unit Dresden II Andreas Reichel Lange Frank Eichler Dirk Richter	7: 45.29 min	SC Chemie Halle Steffen Ließ Karsten Drobny Mike Ketteritzsch Steffen Jahns	7: 49.51 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Magdeburg Frank Baltrusch Rainer Sternal Ulf Boye Sven Müller	3: 55.82 min	SC unit Dresden Sprößig Matuschewski left cock	3: 59.80 min	ASK Forward Potsdam Michael Schmidt Hagen Beier Nils Rudolph Meinke	4: 00.75 min

Ladies

competition	gold		silver		bronze
050 m freestyle	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	26.54 s	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	26.63 s	Susanne Link SC Empor Rostock	27.14 s
100 m freestyle	Caren Metschuck SC Empor Rostock	56.72 s	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	56.89 s	Susanne Link SC Empor Rostock	57.27 s
200 m freestyle	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 00.70 min	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	2: 01.32 min	Susanne Link SC Empor Rostock	2: 01.59 min
400 m freestyle	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	4: 10.66 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 11.23 min	Jacqueline Alex SC Turbine Erfurt	4: 12.77 min
800 m freestyle	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 35.17 min	Carmela Schmidt SC Chemie Halle	8: 38.90 min	Daniela Uebel SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8: 41.46 min
100 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 09.59 min	Silke Hörner SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 11.62 min	Grit Slaby SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 14.32 min
200 m chest	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 31.16 min	Silke Hörner SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 32.64 min	Grit Slaby SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 37.97 min
100 m butterfly	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 00.61 min	Maud Lauckner SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 00.75 min	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 00.83 min
200 m butterfly	Ines Geißler SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 08.74 min	Heike Dähne SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 10.07 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	2: 11.98 min
100 m back	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	1: 02.45 min	Cornelia Sirch SC Turbine Erfurt	1: 02.52 min	Kathrin Zimmermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	1: 03.46 min
200 m back	Cornelia Sirch SC Turbine Erfurt	2: 12.23 min	Kathrin Zimmermann SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 12.87 min	Kristin Otto SC DHfK Leipzig	2: 13.51 min
200 m layers	Ute Geweniger SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 11.80 min	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	2: 15.08 min	Birgit Meineke SC Dynamo Berlin	2: 18.08 min
400 m layers	Petra Schneider SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	4: 37.89 min	Kathleen Nord SC Magdeburg	4: 45.07 min	Grit Slaby SC DHfK Leipzig	4: 50.28 min
4 × 100 m freestyle	SC Dynamo Berlin Birgit Meineke Andrea Mathyssek Cordula Poswiat Beatrice Georgi	3: 52.64 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Daniela Uebel Maud Lauckner Ines Geißler Petra Schneider	3: 54.84 min	SC DHfK Leipzig Grit Matthes Sylke Brose Karin Lindner Grit Slaby	4: 12.85 min
4 × 100 m layers	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt II Kathrin Zimmermann Ute Geweniger Ines Geißler Daniela Uebel	4: 13.21 min	SC Dynamo Berlin Andrea Mathyssek Dau Martina Müller Birgit Meineke	4: 22.08 min	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I Annett Künzel Petra Absmeier Maud Lauckner Petra Schneider	4: 23.96 min

Medal table

Jörg Woithe improved his own European record in the 100 m freestyle

space	society		gold	silver	bronze	Total
01		SC Dynamo Berlin	9	5	5	19th
02		SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	8th	6th	4th	18th
03		SC Turbine Erfurt	4th	1	1	06th
04th		SC unit Dresden	3	7th	3	13
05		SC Empor Rostock	2	2	4th	08th
		SC Magdeburg	2	2	4th	08th
07th		SC DHfK Leipzig	1	3	6th	10
08th		ASK forward Potsdam	1	2	1	04th
		SC Chemistry Hall	1	2	1	04th
10		TSC Berlin	-	1	2	03
	Total		31	31	31	93

See also

• List of European swimming records over 100 meters freestyle

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport82. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1982, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 284-286 .
• New Germany . No. 122-128 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1982, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

Commons : 33rd GDR Swimming Championships  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Result lists men (freestyle)
• Results lists men (chest, butterfly, back and position)
• Result lists women (freestyle)
• Result lists women (chest, butterfly, back and position)